Tips & Tricks
A few tips compiled by the team to help you get the most out of semisolidradio.

How to open a page in a new browser tab
So you're enjoying the music on the home page, and you want to browse the artists on the site at the same time.
Normally, clicking on the Browse Artists button would stop the player because we presume you are going
to be loading the player with some new music shortly. If the player didn't stop, you'd wind up playing two tracks
at once if you load the new copy of the player with music. But you may still want to do this, and who are we to
presume?

Well, there's a neat way open a new tab in your browser so that the music doesn't stop (hey, wouldn't it be really
cool if the music never stopped in Real Life™? Then again, maybe not. You have to sleep sometime). On your
desktop, just right-click on the Browse Artists button (for example), and you will get the option to open
that page in a new tab. On your phone, just hold down the Browse Artists button for a few seconds, and a
menu will pop up allowing you to open the page in a new tab.

On my phone, the music stops playing after every song. How do I get it
to stream continuously?
Mostly due to battery limitations in phones, and also to prevent nasty, spammy stuff from starting up automatically,
a decision was taken by the industry to not allow auto-play of media on these devices. Unfortunately, this means if
you build a site like semisolidradio that functions like a jukebox, the user needs to hit the play button each time
a new song is loaded into the player. But there is a way around this, at least on Android phones.

The Chrome browser has a whole truckload of experimental features that you can enable or disable. Just type the
following into the Chrome browser's address bar and hit Go:

chrome://flags

You'll have to scroll down for quite a while through all the flags, but eventually you'll come to this one that is
disabled by default:

So disable it, and now your phone will stream music continuously just like your desktop does :-) iPhone users cannot
avail of this trick, because although you can download Chrome for iOS, it supports only a handful of those experimental
flags, and this isn't one of them. As with most things Apple, it's their way or the highway.